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Dear Kishore<br>
Welcome to the Working Group on Research and the meeting today from
6 - 730 pm.<br>
Sharing the notes taken online in the last 2 meetings to get you a
feel of what we have discussed so far.<br>
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(Rishi will be unable to attend today's meeting and says he will
share his compendium notes by the weekend)<br>
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regards<br>
Guru<br>
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<td>[Research] Education Policy Tracker - first cut</td>
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<td>Wed, 18 Aug 2021 18:45:46 -0400</td>
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<div dir="ltr">Dear Archana and colleagues
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<div>I am attaching the first cut of the policy tracker in the
attached excel file. I hope we can discuss this on
Thursday.</div>
<div>In developing this, I looked at about 14 other policy
trackers on different issues, ranging from
sophisticated ones to simple ones (had mentioned some of
these in the earlier PPT). It is best to go with something
simple, based on ordinal indicators, but which can be
meaningful if we have a structured data collection,
visualization and communication approach.</div>
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<div>Brief explanatory notes</div>
<div>- the first sheet has the suggested indicators , 7 in
education, 5 in health and 3 in social assistance, and the
coding ( the latter is to be reviewed). We don't need to do
all of them</div>
<div>- the second sheet suggests how the data could be
collected</div>
<div>- the third sheet indicates the steps that have to be
taken, from deciding on the indicators to data collection,
visualization and communication (the last being very
important)</div>
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<div>My suggestion is to NOT create a composite index, at
this time, which is difficult for people to understand. For
the moment, each indicator can be presented/visualized
separately.</div>
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<div>Data collection - looking at other policy trackers, most
actually collect information from media reports and govt
websites. So, as we (ie ITforChange) are already scanning
the media, this should be doable. It just has to be done
systematically and ideally by the same people, so that the
coding is consistent. Also, we could start with about 10
states. </div>
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<div>I shared this Excel file with Guru, who has entered some
comments in the last column of the first sheet, which I left
in. We can discuss these and other comments. My own view
is that even if no state is prioritizing vaccinations for
teachers or doing COVID testing for teachers today, we
should document that, and contrast with other countries
which are doing this (and according to some international
trackers, Govt of India claims to prioritize teachers for
vaccination). </div>
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<div>This kind of policy tracker would need to be supplemented
with more qualitative assessments of how different states
are actually implementing the "return to school",
benchmarking against the guidelines that are being developed
by the education support group. </div>
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<div>Also working on the high frequency survey questions<br>
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